A Bedworth man has been sent to prison for beating up his girlfriend so violently that her eye socket was smashed.

His victim was covered in so much blood that he washed her clothes and made her have a shower before taking her to hospital for treatment.

Dennis Ogden, 48, of High View Drive, Ash Green, was jailed for 2? years at Warwick Crown Court after pleading guilty to inflicting grievous bodily harm on Sarah Pearson.

Further charges of kidnapping and imprisoning her, which he denied, were allowed to lie on the court files.

Judge Richard Cole told Ogden: ?What you did was to use mindless violence towards Miss Pearson, who must have been terrified by you.?

Paul Farrer, prosecuting, said Ogden?s relationship with Miss Pearson was a violent one. The couple agreed to meet at his caravan the day after an argument but he ordered her inside saying: ?We can do this my way, or the hard way.?

He punched her so hard that she remembered hearing cracks which sounded like bones in her face breaking.

Ogden dragged her by the hair into his caravan where he made her take off her clothes because they were covered in blood, and then made her have a shower while he put them in the washing machine.

Later, he took Miss Pearson to hospital where she was treated for a blow-out fracture to her left eye socket.